This is your idea of very creative. It’s no wonder youse people couldn’t figure out a wheel. Keep bottom feeding, it suits you.--------------At least we are smart enough to know that walls are older than wheels. That's more than Mr. Trump knows.

I am frankly pretty tired of these dishonest conversations. There are indeed very real racial disparities in our society, but it doesn’t help anything when people inflate those disparities out of all proportion to reality by citing fake examples to incite outrage.

Yeah, by your own link she was facing 40 years and took a plea deal for five. I think she makes an excellent example of how poor people crimes like drugs and prostitution which don't amount to shit and are selectively enforced on people of color are disproportionately punished by our criminal justice system. While if you are white and wealthy, you can bribe university officials to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars and get a suggested sentence of 30 days, which she may still weasel out of because she's rich and white.

On the wealthy white privilege front..... Huffman is scheduled to be sentenced by a judge on Friday. Prosecutors have suggested four months in prison and a $20,000 fine. Her lawyers are asking for a sentence of one year of probation, 250 hours of community service and a $20,000 fine.1 hour ago

Snopes sets the record straight. Black woman WAS sentenced to 5 years in prison for sending her child to a better school. She was later arrested on other charges after the first charges were dropped. She took a plea deal or she would have spent decades in prison because she is a POC.

After McDowell’s arrest was nationally reported, outrage ensued, and a petition was established online calling for the charges against her to be dropped. But larceny wasn’t the only charge McDowell faced. In 2011, she was arrested again, this time on suspicion of attempting to sell drugs to and offering an undercover police officer a prostitute.

McDowell was sentenced to five years in prison and five years probation after being convicted of first-degree larceny in the school case as part of a plea deal struck with prosecutors. Had she not taken the deal, McDowell could have faced decades in prison. At the time of her sentencing her attorney, David Crosland, expressed happiness with the resolution of the case.

The McDowell case was raised again in 2019 in comparisons to the celebrity college-admissions scandal, as an example of perceived unequal sentencing meted out according to class and race, although most failed to take into account that McDowell’s sentencing was the result of a plea bargain in which she was given a lighter sentence than she could have faced had she proceeded to trial.

“I think she makes an excellent example of how poor people crimes like drugs and prostitution which don't amount to shit and are selectively enforced on people of color are disproportionately punished by our criminal justice system.”

Well, there I agree with you.

There are a lot of crimes that should either carry much lower sentences or none at all. That we deal with “vice” through prohibition is a major source of injustice.

There are many, many ways in which our criminal justice system is unfair. It’s just not helpful to act as if all you have to do is be white and you can go round decapitating people for fun and pay no penalty. Or portray ridiculously low sentences like Brock Turner or “affluenza kid’s” as if theirs are the normal, expected experience for the average white person convicted of rape or manslaughter, when they aren’t at all. (Both involved wealthy defendants who hit the jackpot in terms of landing a lenient judge.)

People need to think a little harder about why our justice system stinks, and not chalk it all up to the direct racial prejudice of judges and juries, which is only one factor.

Shut up lying wingnuts! From Dakota Free _Press: Just last week, the University of Alabama pushed a black VP/dean of students out the door for old tweets pointing out America’s “systemic history of racism for my people.” This politically motivated dismissal is part of a larger pattern identified in research by Acadia University political scientist Jeffrey Adam Sachs: universities have been terminating faculty and administrators more frequently for liberal political speech than for conservative political speech:

What remains are 45 cases from 2015 to 2017 where a faculty member was fired, resigned, or demoted/denied promotion due to speech deemed by critics as political. Of these, more than half (26) occurred in 2017, the clear majority (19) being over liberal speech. This disparity persists even after removing terminations occurring in private religious institutions [Jeffrey Adam Sachs, “There Is No Campus Free Speech Crisis: A Close Look at the Evidence,” Niskanen Center: Defending the Open Society, 2018.04.27].

Was Russiagate Borne Out of a Desire to Get the US State Department Help Sidney Blumenthal's Company Recover Sixty-Six Billion Dollars of Libyan Assets Squirreled Away by Qadaffi?

Records recently posted online by the FBI indicate that it did little to investigate allegations from private sources connected to Republicans about a scheme in which associates of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to exploit their connection to her to profit from the turmoil in Libya in 2011.

The FBI received the documents in June 2016, around the same time it launched an exhaustive, three-year investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia based, in part, on information from private sources connected to Democrats that in the main would prove to be false - the Steele dossier.

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The documents, quietly released as part of the FBI's case files for the "Midyear Exam," its code name for the Clinton email investigation, revive a lingering mystery from Clinton’s tenure as the nation’s chief diplomat: Why did Sidney Blumenthal, the former journalist and Bill Clinton White House aide, send her a series of detailed memos and reports about Libya beginning in 2011?

The documents offer an answer. They allege that Blumenthal sent the emails as a "quid pro quo" to free up classified State Department financial intelligence to help Libya recover as much as $66 billion spirited offshore by slain strongman Moammar Gadhafi.

Out of that, Blumenthal and associates stood to gain a brokers' cut of perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars.

The private Libya inquiry leaves important issues unsettled. The documents do not include emails or other original source material to support the allegations within. While claiming to possess evidence that Blumenthal and his associates had contracts and offshore accounts to repatriate the money, the documents say "no concrete evidence" was found suggesting Clinton acted to support the effort.

Yet if verified, the files might shed light on why Clinton kept her emails, tens of thousands of which have gone missing, out of normal government communication channels.

They do offer tantalizing connections between the Libya and Trump-Russia affairs. Previous reporting from multiple outlets has established Blumenthal worked on Libya with Cody Shearer, another longtime Clinton operative. Shearer would later join Blumenthal in passing anti-Trump claims similar to those in the Steele dossier on to the State Department and across the federal government. The FBI's acquisition of the Libya files made it freshly aware of Blumenthal's possible past motives - including personal financial gain - as he spurred an investigation meant to help defeat Donald Trump and elect Clinton.

In addition, one FBI agent played an especially pivotal role in the bureau’s response to both sets of allegations: Peter Strzok, who would eventually be fired by the bureau because of his anti-Trump bias.

Ace Freely said...The private Libya inquiry leaves important issues unsettled. The documents do not include emails or other original source material to support the allegations within. While claiming to possess evidence that Blumenthal and his associates had contracts and offshore accounts to repatriate the money, the documents say "no concrete evidence" was found suggesting Clinton acted to support the effort.

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Republicans have been conspiring against the Clintons since 1978, (41 years ago) beginning with Whitewater But ultimately, none of the many investigations into Whitewater — including, most famously, one by independent counsel Kenneth Starr — found that the Clintons did anything criminal. https://www.vox.com/2015/4/13/8397309/hillary-clinton-whitewater

Then there were Travelgate, Filegate the impeachment of Bill in 1998, and Benghazi in 2012. During the following six years Republican committees conducted more than ten investigations trying to pin blame on Hillary for the Benghazi fiasco. They did this knowing that the Ambassador had been directed not to go there because his safety could not be assured.

Next we had the email debacle. Hillary unwisely used her personal email server for some government business. Well, wow! - Colin Powell did the same and Ivanka Trump is doing so today. I haven't seen them dragged through senate sub committee after sub committee to answer for this behavior. But Hillary was.

The article you sourced above regarding money from Libya admitted that: "The documents do not include emails or other original source material to support the allegations within." So why are you posting about it?

"Yes, that's all the alt left has is infantile immature behavior....."

So trump is a lefty? Laura Ingrahm? All the conservative trolls here? The most juvenile things I have ever seen are posted by righties trying to "own" a lib. On her show the other night Ingrahm pretended to eat a steak with light bulbs on it through a straw. Sounds sooooooo mature huh?

Some good news on the marital front, Tawd Failin files papers against the wicked wasilla witch moron Saracuda Faillin. They can't co-exist and haven't slept together in over 10 years. All together now....Awwwwwwwwwwwshuckydarn!

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